The Switch

The Switch PDF

Dear reader, I present to you a short novel with a long message. A man who calls himself the "Chosen One" somehow manages in five short years (starting out as a humble junior congressman from a southern state) to take over the whole world and set up the U.D. (Universal Dictatorship). He also decides to reinstate the implanting of a switch on the left arm of all citizens of the U.D., a device which was invented by Adolf Hitler to facilitate genocide and euthanasia. The new dictator claims to have pure motives for mandating the use of the switch, but some people know better. One of them is the book's narrator and main character who must overcome his own depression and suicidal urges to find a purpose in life. The book ends on a positive note with hope for the future; even so, the book's underground publisher issues a somber warning to the reader and to all who dare possess this book. Like George Orwell's 1984, this book is meant, at least in part as a condemnation of totalitarianism, regardless of the ideology. However, this novel also reflects the author's personal disenchantment with capitalism. NOTE: THIS BOOK IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MINORS DUE TO ITS SENSITIVE SUBJECT MATTER.

I definitely recommend this book to anyone who liked George Orwell's 1984 or Jean Paul Sartre's Nausea or Albert Camus' The Stranger, although it has the capacity to appeal to readers of many tastes and preferences.

Table of Contents

1. Prologue - 3
2. First Interlude - 5
3. Hitler and the Switch - 7
4. Second Interlude - 10
5. The Chosen One - 12
6. Third Interlude - 17
7. Ann and Bobby - 20
8. Fourth Interlude - 23
9. John and Jane - 26
10. Fifth Interlude - 33
11. Andy - 37
12. Final Interlude: The One-armed Movement - 42
13. Epilogue: A Warning to the Reader - 44